The title of this new book by Fabio Morábito refers to the music that accompanies a film's closing credits. Often, these credits are longer than a single song, so a second song is used to accompany the credits until the end. This "second song," which takes over from the first and plays in movie theaters once the audience has left, a song that almost no one hears, an "empty song," as the poet calls it in one of the book's poems, takes on the power of a symbol of everything—not just things but also people—that passes behind us like something outdated and useless, with no witnesses to account for its existence, but which continues to beat within its realm, dully and stubbornly, with its own rhythm and melody.
Fabio Morábito has meticulously alternated short story with poetry. Born in Alexandria to Italian parents, he has written all his work in Spanish, despite Italian being his n...read more
